DR. PHIL RUINED MY LIFE!

Bembenek is seeking unspecified damages from the TV shrink – after her right leg was amputated when she fell out a window while trying to escape his staffers.

“The loss of Laurie’s leg was as devastating to her as the day she was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison,” Bembenek’s longtime friend and private investigator Ira Robins told The ENQUIRER.

“She’s said many times that she holds Dr. Phil and his producers personally responsible for ruining her life.”

The strange saga of Bembenek – one of America’s most notorious prison escapees – got even stranger last November when she flew to California to appear on the “Dr. Phil” show. The show had agreed to foot the $20,000 bill for DNA tests that Laurie insisted would clear her name in the 1981 murder of her then-husband’s ex-wife.

But when Bembenek, 45, and her boyfriend arrived in Los Angeles, her tempestuous life took yet another horrific turn. Dr. Phil’s handlers stashed Bembenek in an apartment hideaway that had no contact with the outside world because they wanted to keep her from finding out the DNA results before her TV appearance, according to her lawsuit.

After spending eight years in prison, Bembenek said being confined triggered a panic attack. She tried to lower herself out a window, but plunged 12 feet to the ground. Bembenek suffered a severed artery, plus broken bones in her leg and foot. Eventually, her right leg was amputated several inches below the knee.